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Summary:
- This text provides an accessible guide to well established and contested issues, as well as new concepts emerging through cutting edge research in social gerontology. The entries give concise, lucid knowledge on what constitutes the 'building blocks' of social gerontology and sets out a clear review of the core concepts.
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Table of Contents:
- Advocacy ; Age Integration ; Ageing ; Ageing in Place ; Ageism ; Ambivalence ; Assisted Living
- Bereavement ; Biographical Approaches
- Care ; Care Management ; Civic Engagement ; Cohort ; Convoy Theory ; Cultural Ideals
- Death and Dying ; Dementia ; Disability
- Elder Mistreatment-Abuse ; Environmental Gerontology ; Ethnicity ; Euthanasia
- Family Relations ; Filial Responsibility ; Frailty
- Gender ; Generations ; Gerontology ; Global Ageing
- Housing
- Independence ; Intergenerational Practice
- Life Course Perspective ; Lifelong Learning ; Loneliness ; Long Term Care ; Longevity
- Palliative Care ; Pensions ; Population Ageing
- Quality of Life Religion-Spirituality ; Retirement
- Social Exclusion ; Social Relations ; Social Support ; Social Theories of Ageing ; Successful Ageing
- Third and Fourth Age ; Triple Jeopardy.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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Alternate Titles:
- Spine title: Social gerontology
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General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and indexes.
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Physical Description:
- vii, 240 pages ; 22 cm.
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Call Numbers:
- HQ1061 .P415 2010
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ISBNs:
- 9781412922715
1412922712
9781412922722 (pbk.)
1412922720 (pbk.)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009929965
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OCLC Numbers:
- 464584641